BRINGING

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does bringing mean? 

• BRINGING (noun)
  The noun BRINGING has 1 sense:

1. the act of delivering or distributing something (as goods or mail)

  Familiarity information: BRINGING used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• BRINGING (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The act of delivering or distributing something (as goods or mail)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

bringing; delivery

Context example:

his reluctant delivery of bad news

Hypernyms ("bringing" is a kind of...):

conveyance; transfer; transferral; transport; transportation (the act of moving something from one location to another)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "bringing"):

airdrop (delivery of supplies or equipment or personnel by dropping them by parachute from an aircraft)

consignment (the delivery of goods for sale or disposal)

handing over; passage (the act of passing something to another person)

post (the delivery and collection of letters and packages)

service; service of process; serving (the act of delivering a writ or summons upon someone)

 Context examples 

"Though he's lucky if he pulls even on it, or if he can inveigle a publisher to risk bringing it out."

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

Probably because during her residence in Liverpool she had some hand in bringing about the events which led to the tragedy.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

You have ended by bringing about the death of a noble man and driving his wife to suicide.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

His majesty desired I would take some other opportunity of bringing all the rest of his enemy’s ships into his ports.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

At the same time, Jupiter will be in lovely aspect to the moon, bringing a touch of beauty, luxury, and comfort.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

“A thousand things come back to me which make me certain that you have hit it. Oh, let us lose not an instant in bringing help to this poor creature.”

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Janet reporting it to be quite ready, I was taken up to it; kindly, but in some sort like a prisoner; my aunt going in front and Janet bringing up the rear.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

"Let me mend them," said I. "I don't mind it, and he needn't know. I'd like to, he's so kind to me about bringing my letters and lending books."

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

“Now don’t say that this is what you get for bringing a woman along,” she said.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

We are bringing a good deal of ready money, as we are to buy a carriage and horses.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)